Paradise Lost Book Quotes

#1. What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

John Milton

#2. Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

John Milton

#3. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

John Milton

#4. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

John Milton

#5. Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.

John Milton

#6. Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest.

John Milton

#7. Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Samuel Johnson

#8. I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't ... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Helen Oyeyemi

#9. The never-ending flight Of future days.

John Milton

#10. And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

John Milton

#11. Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

John Milton

#12. Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she will not brook; And left to herself, if evil thence ensue She first his weak indulgence will accuse.

John Milton

#13. 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

John Milton

#14. Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.

John Milton

#15. God is thy law, thou mine.

John Milton

#16. Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,
Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.

John Milton

#17. With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

John Milton